The world needs us

17.6 million adults–1 in every 12–suffer from alcohol abuse or dependence

8% of people aged 12 and older have used illegal drugs in the past 30 days

Every 40 seconds, someone in the world dies by suicide. Every 14 minutes in the US.

The US divorce rate is the highest of any nation in the world

1 in 10 US adults is depressed

There is so much pain in the world. Jesus came to bring good news to the poor, release to the captives, sight to the blind, freedom to the oppressed. He has born our griefs and carried our sorrows. We, the church, carry his message of salvation to the world.

Do you think there are also people who notice and who do care but who don’t know what to do or how to help. Like you say, they assume it needs a professional to help, not realizing that a listening ear is often more helpful.

17.6 million
adults–1 in every 12–suffer from alcohol abuse or dependence

8% of people aged
12 and older have used illegal drugs in the past 30 days

Every 40 seconds,
someone in the world dies by suicide. Every 14 minutes in the US.

The US divorce
rate is the highest of any nation in the world

1 in 10 US adults
is depressed

There is so much pain in the world. Jesus came to bring good news to the poor, release to the captives, sight to the blind, freedom to the oppressed. He has born our griefs and carried our sorrows. We, the church, carry his message of
salvation to the world.

Where is the church when the world needs her?

The Church, which is catholic, has become sectarian. It believes that only
Christians are “saved”, whatever that means! Saved from what, to what?

Latin/Western Christians no longer believe in the Cosmic Christ which was
implied in the Pauline letter of Colossians, but not really developed until
the Patristic Age.

“Bible-only” Christians have cut themselves off from a living Tradition, the process by which the Christian faith remains ever new to each succeeding generation.

Google “Cosmic Christ” and you will be amazed at how “small” the Jesus of history who is the Savior of the Church is compared to the Cosmic Christ who is the Savior of the world.

“Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the
living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remembering
where we are and when we are and that it is we who have to decide.
Traditionalism supposes that nothing should ever be done for the first time, so all that is needed to solve any problem is to arrive at the supposedly unanimous
testimony of this homogenized tradition.” –Jaroslav Pelikan

“You cannot claim absolute finality for a dogma without claiming a
commensurate finality for the sphere of thought within which it arose. If the dogmas of the Christian Church from the second to the sixth century centuries express finally and sufficiently the truths concerning the topics about which they deal, then the Greek philosophy of that period had developed a system of ideas of equal finality. You cannot limit the inspiration to a narrow circle of creeds. A dogma – in the sense of a precise statement – can never be final; it can only be adequate in its adjustment of certain abstract concepts…. Progress in truth – truth of science
and truth of religion – is mainly a progress in the framing of concepts, in discarding
artificial abstractions or partial metaphors, and in evolving notions which strike more deeply into the root of reality.” –Alfred North Whitehead

“The sacred history of redemption is still going on. It is now the history of the Church that is the Body of Christ. The Spirit-Comforter is already abiding in the Church. No complete system of Christian faith is yet possible, for the Church is still on her pilgrimage. And the Bible is kept by the Church as a book of history to remind believers of the dynamic nature of the divine revelation, “at sundry times and in divers manners.” ~Georges V. Florovsky, Bible, Church, Tradition: An
Eastern Orthodox View

I think if we get into the business of making disciples motivated by our love for Jesus, we are then plunged into this problems.

The heart beat of Jesus within us, holds the addict in our arms, cares for the child without a mother, feeds the hungry, loves the un-lovable, throws the garment of praise around the shoulders of those depressed!

Those that sit at ease in the church, need to be reminded, that we have a responsibility to take the light, love and healing power of God into a dark world.